Old Map of the Black Sea, 1854 - Crimean War, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Balkans, Greece gardens The map shows the city

The map shows the city of Berlin as it was almost 200 years ago when Berlin was the capital of the province of Brandenburg

Please take a look at the listing images and be sure to click them to zoom in - there's a wonderful amount of detail in this map

large prints of this map up to 160 inches (400cm

York Place and Park Place are still there today - though they look very different

This beautiful and highly detailed pictorial Sydney was put together by mapmaker Russell Sydney Lloyd and originally published in 1932 by John Sands

Old Map of the Black Sea, 1854 - Crimean War, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Balkans, Greece gardens The map shows the cityEngraved by John Rapkin and published by J. Tallis & Co in 1854, this is one of the finest and most detailed historic maps of the Black Sea region with Europe on the left and Asia on the right. Notably, this map makes reference to the Crimean War, which was ongoing at the time. There's a red line between Bulgarian and Sevastopol marking an "electric telegraph to the allied camps" which would've allowed for very rapid communications for allied forces